James Monroe High School will tentatively be holding a tournament this November. We're located in Fredericksburg, VA, a convenient hour away from both Richmond, VA and Washington DC. This is just to gauge interest and see if any teams would want to attend such a tournament. It will most likely be house-written in the form of 20/20 Tossups and Bonuses.

We haven't decided on an exact date yet, but if there is enough interest, we will probably go ahead and run this.

Chuhern Hwang
James Monroe High School Class of 2009
University of Virginia Class of 2013

Definite interest in this. Fredericksburg is close enough that it's an easy trip for us. On the other hand, if there is a DC or Baltimore tournament on this date, we'd probably do that tourney instead, as it would be close.

John Gilbert
Coach, Howard High School Academic Team
Ellicott City, MD

Howard wrote:Definite interest in this. Fredericksburg is close enough that it's an easy trip for us. On the other hand, if there is a DC or Baltimore tournament on this date, we'd probably do that tourney instead, as it would be close.

I'd like to think that this can count as 'the' tournament in the greater DC/MD/VA area (I'm assuming that this isn't the long-time date for one of the MD suburb tournaments.)

As an aside, I will be happy to edit this tournament as I have done for Cave Spring. Email me for details.

Is Mr. Blackburn retiring after this year, or am I confusing things in my addled brain?

Howard wrote:Definite interest in this. Fredericksburg is close enough that it's an easy trip for us. On the other hand, if there is a DC or Baltimore tournament on this date, we'd probably do that tourney instead, as it would be close.

I'd like to think that this can count as 'the' tournament in the greater DC/MD/VA area (I'm assuming that this isn't the long-time date for one of the MD suburb tournaments.)

As an aside, I will be happy to edit this tournament as I have done for Cave Spring. Email me for details.

Is Mr. Blackburn retiring after this year, or am I confusing things in my addled brain?

That would be amazing. Thanks!

As far as the date goes, I am going to talk with our coach and try and reserve our school for a Saturday, probably in November, sometime soon, and if that works out I'll post an update.

Unless I've been completely misinformed about it, Mr. Blackburn will be staying at James Monroe at least for another year.

Chuhern Hwang
James Monroe High School Class of 2009
University of Virginia Class of 2013

November is not going to work for us, so this will likely be in the winter, probably February or sometime like that. Once school starts I'll discuss this more with our coach and principal and try and set a new date.

Chuhern Hwang
James Monroe High School Class of 2009
University of Virginia Class of 2013